The 2021-22 regular season is over for the Houston Rockets, but the fun of a highly anticipated 2022 NBA offseason is just beginning.
The Rockets (20-62) will have two first-round picks in the 2022 NBA draft, with their own coming somewhere in the top five (depending on draft lottery results) and another via Brooklyn at No. 17 overall.
Then, 2022 free agency arrives just after the draft. While the Rockets are not expected to be below the salary cap this offseason, they have enough expiring salaries (led by John Wall, Eric Gordon, and Christian Wood) to where Houston could easily get involved on the trade market, should they desire — including hypothetical sign-and-trades for free agents, in which those expiring veterans could be used for matching purposes.
